Quotes About Flexibility

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

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Robert Frost wrote in 1914, "Why abandon a belief / Merely because it ceases to be true.

along with our responses to them, determine

We can focus on the ability to react to events rather than relying on the ability to predict them, on qualities like flexibility, confidence, courage, and perseverance.

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.

In the field of morality, the Nazi's primary obligation is to renounce, to renounce his self, in the full, literal sense of the term: his values, in the name of society; his judgment, in the name of authority; his convictions, in the name of flexibility.

The technology of the book is much more flexible than film, more user friendly. The reader can dip into the book at will, without electricity, and is always aware of where she is in the book, halfway through, a third of the way, mere pages from the end, her fingers helping to measure the excitement of coming to the conclusion.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

People aren't always what you want them to be

Sometimes you had to become a different version of yourself to move safely through certain spaces in the world.

You found a pen?" "No, but I have a can of Cheez Whiz. I'll write your number on the counter with it, then find a pen and copy it.

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.